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Apple

Systems Software Engineer, Intelligence Orchestration, Proactive Intelligence

$150K–$278K

Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Sep 21, 2026

About the job

Build and maintain systems infrastructure that enables Apple Intelligence, Siri, and related on-device intelligence features across Apple platforms.

What you'll do

  • Design and maintain daemons and frameworks for on-device intelligence; manage inference models and routing to private cloud compute.
  • Schedule and optimize document processing workloads for search; develop tests and resolve customer-reported issues.
  • Provide design guidance and technical expertise to partner engineering teams.

What they ask for

  • Expert-level proficiency in C, Objective-C, or Swift.
  • Knowledge of operating system architecture and systems programming fundamentals.
  • Experience developing daemons, libraries, or command-line tools on a Unix or Linux platform.
  • Familiarity with machine learning concepts and strong analytical and debugging skills.

Nice to have

  • Experience applying machine learning in systems engineering; development experience on macOS or iOS.
  • Experience with agentic coding tools or AI-assisted development workflows.

Pay

$150,400 and $277,600 (base salary)

Tools

C, Objective-C, Swift, Unix, Linux, macOS, iOS

AI focus

Develop systems infrastructure for Apple Intelligence and Siri, including on-device inference model management, private cloud compute routing, and intelligence-powered search workloads.

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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)